Roosevelt Park to consider repaving community park lot off Glenside

Megan Hart | MLive.comA sign at the intersection of Roosevelt and Glenside points out a detour because of construction on Glenside in Roosevelt Park.

ROOSEVELT PARK - The Roosevelt Park City Council will consider repaving the parking lot for a park adjacent to the community center as part of a larger project on Glenside.

That area of Glenside, near the intersection with Roosevelt, is already closed for reconstruction, and Roosevelt Park City Manager Anthony Chandler said it seemed like a good idea to repair the lot while detours were already in place. Chandler said paving the lot will add about $10,000 to the project's total cost.

"While the area's already a construction zone, we figured we should go ahead and do that," he said.

The council will consider adding the parking lot to the overall project at its meeting at 7:15 p.m. tonight at city hall, 900 Oak Ridge.

The larger project will reconstruct Glenside from Eastland Road to Kloap Road, Kloap from Glenside to Davis Road and Davis from Kloap to Norton Avenue. Previous stages of the project reconstructed Glenside from Sherman Boulevard to Eastland.

The roads will remain open to local traffic, Chandler said, but detours are posted at the end of the construction zone for nonlocal traffic. The work will take about eight weeks, he said.